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2 days ago
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Old Scottish music festival footage misrepresented as pro-Trump crowd
A video spreading online claims to show a massive crowd in Scotland greeting US President Donald Trump with an exuberant welcome as he visited in July 2025. But the clip is misrepresented; the footage traces to the English band Courteeners's performance at a 2016 music festival. "Scottish crowds give Trump a royal welcome," says text over the video, shared July 26, 2025 to TikTok. "King Donald." The clip shows a crowd of people waving their arms and jumping, with a traditional Scottish bagpipe tune dubbed over the footage. Similar posts circulated across TikTok and other platforms, including X and Instagram. "What the media will not show you," says one July 28 post on X. The video spread as Trump spent five days in Scotland playing golf, opening a new course and inking a major trade deal with the European Union. The president arrived July 25 and departed July 29. But the clip is out of context. A reverse image search surfaced the same footage in a YouTube video posted July 30, 2016 with a title saying it shows the Courteeners performing their song "Not Nineteen Forever" during the "T in the Park" music festival (archived here). According to news reports from the time and an archived capture of the festival's website, Courteeners were one of several acts involved with the event. A photo from the BBC shows lead singer Liam Fray in what appears to be the same shirt as he can be seen wearing in the YouTube video (archived here). The festival took place at Strathallan Castle in Perthshire. A visit to the castle was not on Trump's agenda, which instead included inaugurating a golf course in Balmedie, in northeastern Scotland, and time at his Turnberry resort on the country's southwestern coast. The president landed at Prestwick Airport and flew out of a Royal Air Force base in Lossiemouth. AFP journalists spotted some supporters at Prestwick Airport, but the president's visit also drew protests, with several hundred people demonstrating outside the US consulate in the capital Edinburgh and further north in the city of Aberdeen, near the Balmedie has fact-checked other misinformation about US politics here.
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Thousands of music fans flock to farm to enjoy Truck Festival
Thousands of music lovers descended on a South Oxfordshire farm over the weekend for Truck Festival. The festival has been held at Hill Farm in Steventon, near Didcot, since 1998 and has been a fixture for music lovers since 1998. This year saw the likes of Kasabian, Courteeners, Nothing But Thieves and Franz Ferdinand grace the stage. It was estimated that around 20,000 people attended Tim Hughes, who attended the festival for this newspaper, said: "It has been amazing. The weather has been great and it has been a really good vibe. "Kasabian was brilliant and the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra was absolutely amazing. They had an opera singer with them. READ MORE: Blackbird Leys Adventure Playground at risk of closure "There has been crowdsurfing and all sorts. The crowd has been loving it." The festival started on Thursday with limited entry for Bloc Party. Kasabian were on Saturday night and Last Dinner Party put on a Gaza live medical aid appeal while on stage. Started by musician brothers Robin and Joe Bennett – of the bands Goldrush and The Dreaming Spires – as a birthday bash for Robin, it has a proud history of pushing back against the commercialism of larger festivals and instead focusing on the music and upcoming talent. Their Veterans and Virgins stage remains a little corner of the old Truck Festival loved by generations of Oxfordshire festival-goers.
